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Started playing with @bot this week, first problem I'm using it to solve is automatically picking my lunches from Factor every week because any time I forget they send me stuff I don't like. Becoming really easy to see how the way we use the web is going to totally change.
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common failure mode is picking the tech that gives you the fastest early ramp, riding that steep curve, feeling like you're winning, projecting that, you know, steep slope into the future and feeling like the sky is the limit, and then hitting the plateau, and discovering that the technology path that you picked actually flattens out way before the performance that is required by your product.
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And as a result of identifying that person in a lineup, that person then replaces what they actually saw. So our memory can be contaminated just like any form of evidence could be contaminated.
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And I believe the best product CEOs are in the minutia of the details. you know, all the stories about Steve Jobs. I was so impressed when I heard that he insisted on picking out the carpeting in the conference rooms, you know, and and I tried to have that same mentality of micromanaging the really small pixel level details that matter.
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The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.Their words
I mean, you could argue that we we're already past peak truth on the on the on the internet, right? And now there's there's just more and more garbage every every day. It gets harder and harder to suss out the stuff that you do want to include in the training set in order to actually make something more intelligent.
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Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.
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Uh but whenever we do a systematic study, um any given problem, an AI tool has a success rate of maybe 1 or 2%. Uh it's just that it's just that they can apply at scale and and you just pick the winners, it looks great.
25 January
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And I realized it was the first one on the list and I thought, huh, I wonder if people are just picking the first one. So then then we randomized the list so everyone saw a different order of the list and now all the items were picked equally
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You don't call uninformed. You call knowing as much as there is to know and then you start picking the brains of people who might know more and have not said.
23 July 2025
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So picking the right question is the hardest part of science and making the right hypothesis. And that's what today's systems definitely they can't do. So I often say it's harder to come up with a conjecture, a really good conjecture than it is to solve it.
20 February 2024
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Universities would be better run by business leaders than by academics the faculty approves of.Their words
I would argue having a business leader run these institutions and then having a board that has, itself, diverse viewpoints, and by the way, permanently structured to have diverse viewpoints is a much better way to run a university than picking an academic that the faculty supports.
25 May 2023
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There are no existing AI/ML systems that mitigate clinical failure risks due to target choice or toxicology.
11 April 2023
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Large replication projects answer the wrong question, because most individual studies do not matter either way.Their words
There’s no point in picking some studies that are convenient to replicate, doing ‘em over, and reporting “only 36% of them replicate!”
27 December 2022
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This, as was noted on Twitter, is a recipe for bad studies: it encourages the cherry-picking of results that went your way and the hiding of those that didn’t.
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If you’ve got a small genome, the chances of you picking up the right bit of DNA from the environment is much higher than if you’ve got a genome of 20,000 genes. To do that, you’ve effectively got to be picking up DNA all the time, all day long and nothing else, and you’re still going to get the wrong DNA. You’ve got to pick up large chunks, and in the end, you’ve got to line them up, you’re forced into sex, to coin a phrase.
28 October 2011
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Which language or stack an engineer knows barely matters, because a good engineer picks up a new one in weeks.Their words
In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.
27 November 2008
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